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multi headed system -xinerama

Post by junkmai.. » Sun, 16 Apr 2000 04:00:00



I have posted a question that apparently no one has the answer to...so now I pose another one.  I can't get xinerama to work properly.  Does anyone know of a irc channel that I can go to for help, or any doccumentation that may help me.  Thanks.

-Jake

 
 
 
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multi headed system -xinerama

Post by Felix Natte » Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:00:00



> I have posted a question that apparently no one has the answer to...so
> now I pose another one.  I can't get xinerama to work properly.  Does
> anyone know of a irc channel that I can go to for help, or any
> doccumentation that may help me.  Thanks.

here's an example-configuration from a German magazine
(www.linux-magazin.de): Section "ServerLayout"
        ... (input goes here) Screen "Screen 1" Screen "Screen 2" RightOf
        "Screen 1" Screen "Screen 3" LeftOf "Screen 1"
EndSection => this gives you three independent X-servers (hostname:0.0,
hostname:0.1 and hostname:0.2).  if you want one "xinerama"-display, you
need to start X with "+xinerama -layout".

check the documentation at http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/

and then post some more details: your XF86Config, monitors and so on.

--
Felix Natter

 
 
 
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1. XFree4: Making Multi-head Work WITHOUT Xinerama

Since so far I've been unsuccessful in getting XFree4.0 multi-head to
work properly using Xinerama (mouse disappears in 2nd screen, 2nd
screen won't work above 1280.1024, 2nd screen won't work in
accelerated mode ... see thread "XF86 4.0 Multi Head Problems" posted
over the last couple of days...), I thought I'd try shutting Xinerama
off and seeing if I could get it to work that way.

So far, no joy.

The #2 screen just shows me a gray background, no "wallpaper" (I have
wallpaper enabled), and no way to access anything on that screen.

How does multi-head operate if Xinerama is turned off?  Are you
supposed to be able to put desktop #1 on one monitor and desktop #2 on
the other, stuff like that?

I have been through every bit of XF4 documentation I can find and have
spent all of yesterday and most of this morning on Dejanews and so
far, cannot find ANY discussion at all of how to run multi-head with
Xinerama turned off (and as I indicated in the above-referenced post,
Xinerama turned on seems to work but with all the problems listed in
that post).

Any suggestions?

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